liars and lovers combine tonight, we're gonna make a scene
He has missed Edrei's fire (the personality sort), he realises, though he's also glad she can't set the bar alight. It would be annoying, but also it isn't Neron's bar. Damaging relations with Sunjata is not what he's aiming to achieve out of this conversation. And call it time or age, but the elder twin seems utterly nonplussed about Loren's abandonment; it has been a year since he denounced them, and it barely bothers him now.
None of that helps Edy, though. "I'm not sure that would make you feel any better," he tells her, emptying the last of the bottle into their two glasses and offering his own up for a toast. "Honestly, Edrei, there isn't really a Launceleyn family any more. Not in the sense of spy networks and curses and torturing each other to keep us in line. You're free of that legacy."
None of that helps Edy, though. "I'm not sure that would make you feel any better," he tells her, emptying the last of the bottle into their two glasses and offering his own up for a toast. "Honestly, Edrei, there isn't really a Launceleyn family any more. Not in the sense of spy networks and curses and torturing each other to keep us in line. You're free of that legacy."
Neron
